While you're frying up some eggs and bacon, we're cooking up something else: a way to celebrate today's food holiday.

A dreamy, creamy start to the New Year - January 2 is National Cream Puff Day!

Can you really imagine a better way to kick-start an exciting new year full of scrumptious food holidays than stuffing your face full of cream puffs? Now, that's what we call a resolution!

Cream puffs, otherwise known by fancy monikers like profiterole or choux à la crème, is nothing more than a ball of choux pastry dough that is baked and filled with cream, whether it be pastry, ice or whipped.

And don't forget the dusting of powdered sugar, or a drizzle of chocolate sauce, on top. Bakeries either slice the dough ball in half and spoon the cream filling inside or pipe it in with a narrow piping tip via pastry bag.

Catherine de' Medici had a thing for her beloved choux pastry, and when she married Henry II of France in the 1500s, she brought recipes from good old Tuscany with her - including the profiterole. You're welcome, rest of the world!

It might have taken us a while to catch on, but the term "cream puff" began appearing on American restaurant menus as early as 1851.

So you might have already gave the New Year a hearty salute, but keep the party going a little longer by creating your own dreamy cream puffs. You'll be on cloud nine after one bite.